"Shania Twain wants to ride a horse on to Glasto stage"

[abbijay]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyddzd3jp4jo
I'm all for doing weird and wonderful things and I'm all for training horses to be pretty bombproof but I REALLY don't think Glastonbury is the place to bring a horse! Especially one that she's just hoping to borrow!!

 

[OrangeAndLemon]

If it was something pre-practiced with a suitable horse (like the stunt horses etc) then fine but this feels like a random comment during an interview and it's become a headline.

If they feel they must honour it, maybe a wooden horse can be found.

 

[suestowford]

...or a hobby horse perhaps!

 

[Gamebird]

She did this many times during her Vegas residency (horse comes on about half way through)

 

[teapot]

Las Vegas residency is one thing, Glastonbury is quite another from a noise, sights, everything else point of view.

 

[JenJ]

She wants to ride a horse on stage at Glastonbury? That don't impress me much.

 

[abbijay]

She wants to ride a horse on stage at Glastonbury? That don't impress me much.

Jen wins the internet today

 

[Gamebird]

Las Vegas residency is one thing, Glastonbury is quite another from a noise, sights, everything else point of view.

Oh absolutely. I thought it needed context though. And pointing out that it's not her first rodeo (quite literally).

 

[Cortez]

Something that's all in a day's work for a film horse, they just need to contact someone like the Devil's Horsemen, Steve Dent, Ben Atkinson, et al. for the right horse.

 

[ester]

I think @TheMule should offer her mule for this service

 

[teapot]

Something that's all in a day's work for a film horse, they just need to contact someone like the Devil's Horsemen, Steve Dent, Ben Atkinson, et al. for the right horse.

Genuine question here - do film horses regularly get exposed to the level of noise/lights that somewhere like Glastonbury has?

 

[Cortez]

Genuine question here - do film horses regularly get exposed to the level of noise/lights that somewhere like Glastonbury has?

Oh yes, and a litany of other things that are unimaginable to the average horse and rider. Any horse that has been on a battle scene set will have experienced waaaay more than any concert crowd can throw at it. Think wind machines, walls of fire, ground explosions, gunfire/cannon fire, 100's of shouting extras waving weapons, rain machines, massive lights on stands, rigging scaffolding, dolly tracks & cameras, smoke machine "worms", fake snow machines, etc., etc.

 

[PinkvSantaboots]

As she has done it before and has her own horses I'm sure she is capable of pulling it off.

Good luck to her I will look forward to watching it the Vegas performance she did on horse back is lovely.

 

[MidChristmasCrisis]

Kynryn event in County Durham have lots of horses who would cope with such a situation.

 

[HopOnTrot]

Didn’t Bianca Jagger ride one into Studio 54?

 

[Irish-Only]

My mare LOVED the local carnival procession, brass bands, floats with wild music and lots of weird and wonderful things. I took her to see it with an escape route at the ready in case it was all too much but nope, she just wanted to get closer and closer. The only thing that she really couldn't weigh up was the little walking princesses in floor length dresses, I mean they were floating along, no legs!!

 

[LadyGascoyne]

I think Mimosa would probably do it

She’d look a bit more lively but that’s her default.

 

[Skib]

I went to a Michael Peace demo at Merrist Wood years ago where we (his audience) were asked to simulate a football crowd. We clapped, shouted and sang to order while he rode and de-sensitised a potential police horse.

 

[I'm Dun]

I think Mimosa would probably do it

She’d look a bit more lively but that’s her default.

Mu old git would march on there like everyone was there to see him

 

[Bob notacob]

Bob is totally up for it , he did stand by the route of the Olympic men's road race and loved every minute of it . afterwards we joined in a peloton of cyclists leaving .Much to their astonishment and bobs delight .Heard a Texan drawl from the crowd, that's one hell of a horse! Totally embarrassed by his friends reply , Yes but that's one hell of a rider! Best compliment for a lifetime of being a nobody in the horse world!